If they're trying to hide something, they sure are doing a crappy job of it. Remember, this is the Google Earth satellite that took these images. We're not talking about the much more detailed images that the military intelligence satellites are capable of.

Maybe those are the Chinese characters for space aliens that says, " No ticky, no laundry."

Has anyone asked the Chinese?

And meanwhile Obama the Destroyer has used more false reasons to squelch the Pipeline needed to purchase cheap Canadian oil and help his friends factories in China use all of that cheap energy instead of out of work Americans.

Grid of angled stripes is the Lop Nor potash works and mining areas. The concentric area of circles is apparantly a missile testing facility, American military intel can probably elaborate more, but they rarely due to avoid informing a rival of all our info collection capacities.

The Chinese have a far easier time figuring out what is going on in the USA with their vast spy network of chinese nationals and chinese-americans here.

The jets in the 3rd picture look to be obsolete Shenyang-6's (the Chinese-built variant of the Mig-19). Looks like some sort of target range for training pilots in strafing and ground support missions.

Gaaah. Ten of my IQ points just threw up their hands and walked out saying "That's IT! We've had it!" when they spotted the word "alien" in the Telegraph article.

The jets in the circle are likely exactly what the article posited: A missile testing range.

The other odd random stuff is just simply indeterminant. They're not runways because they're too random, but there sure as hell isn't any reason to presume aliens. :-/

That second image - the one around 100 miles from Jiuquan - happens to have some amazingly straight lines. Considering the uneven ground it's on, has anyone considered the possibility of a prank by Google? I'm not skilled enough to tell if it's been digitally manipulated, and I also admit that it could indeed be genuine ground imagry. But still... those lines are so damn straight... sure, I might be fooled, and that might be geniunely just carefully constructed lines that are truly there. But I'm not dismissing my suspicion either. I hate to sound like a cliché, but I can't help but think that it really does look Photoshopped. Someone prove me wrong, please. I'll willingly admit that I'm wrong if evidence is given.